Josh Baker
Co-Founder & CTO at Fraction Technologies Inc.
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolJosh Baker is a seasoned software leader and Co-Founder/CTO with 11 years of experience building resilient, production-grade systems from embedded control to native mobile apps. Based in Vancouver, he architected Fraction’s end-to-end tech stack for a novel mortgage product, shipping broker and homeowner dashboards plus a native broker mobile app. His background spans distributed backend performance wins (2000% throughput improvement at a major VFX studio), machine-learning-enabled embedded and data systems, and deep React Native expertise—he’s contributed UI improvements to the widely used react-native-elements library. At Brex he was an early senior mobile engineer, building native modules including computer-vision integrations now used in the shipped app. Comfortable moving between low-level C++/embedded work and high-level TypeScript/React Native, he blends startup pragmatism with rigorous engineering discipline. An under-the-radar strength: he repeatedly turns messy, legacy environments into testable, fault-tolerant platforms that scale.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) Computer Software Engineering at The University of British Columbia
English, French
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Github Skills (13)
mobile-application10
react-native10
react10
ui-components10
javascript9
cross-platform8
ios8
android8
real-ip6
pandas6
amp-html6
python6
google-maps6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
react-native-elements/react-native-elements
Mar 2017 - Oct 2017
Cross-Platform React Native UI Toolkit
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer
Mobile DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 6 PRs, 8 comments in 6 months
Contributions summary:Josh primarily contributed to the development of React Native UI components within the `react-native-elements` library. Their work focused on enhancing the `ListItem` and `Card` components by adding new features like switches and text inputs, fixing existing layout issues. Additionally, the user improved the project by fixing type prototypes and documentation.
reactnative-uiui-componentsreact-nativeiosandroid
Joshuabaker2/joshuabaker2.github.io
Apr 2015 - Apr 2016
Contributions:21 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
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